As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The mark of a strong character lies not in doing what is fun to do or what is easy to do. The… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken;… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“Morality is separate from the ideals of men. It exists whole somewhere, to be approached—but never truly understood—by the mortal. The Philosophy… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Art doesn't have the stench of a community program. It's transcendent. It is transcendent of morality and transcendent of political position. It… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
“We all need a moral compass. Before you say or do anything, check your inner G.P.S. by asking, "Does this show respect… — Pam Farrel Copy Share Image
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“So how do you find out what God thinks? The Christian says, you look in the Bible. And the Bible tells us… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
“If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
“Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus… — Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Copy Share Image
“...let me tell you what's more immoral. Doing nothing. Sitting back in your comfortable chair in your comfortable home thinking that just… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The only truth is the truth of the now. ' there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.'… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“Mtu yoyote anayedanganya ni Shetani, kwani Shetani ni baba wa uongo. Tusikubali kudanganywa ovyo, hasa watoto wetu, katika kipindi hiki cha utandawazi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The only truth is the truth of the now. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. There… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality,… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image